SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 2 -- Coverity, Inc., makers of the world's most advanced and scalable source code analysis solution for pinpointing software defects and security vulnerabilities, today announced the general availability of Coverity Prevent and Coverity Extend. These new products improve software quality by reducing or eliminating computer system crashes, security vulnerabilities, and performance degradation by discovering defects in software code during development.

"Coverity Prevent and Coverity Extend are helping our global customers build the most secure, reliable and stable products on the market," said Seth Hallem, CEO of Coverity. "Businesses are fed up with system crashes and software glitches. Coverity is working to eliminate software defects at the source, fixing problems as soon as software is written and thoroughly inspecting existing software for defects that quality assurance tests couldn't find."

As software is embedded in more products for increasingly critical use such as networking switches and in enterprise storage products, the cost of software defects is skyrocketing. The US government's National Institute of Science and Technology (NIST) estimates that poor software quality costs customers more than $59.5 billion a year.

"Our experience teaches us that the earlier in the development cycle a bug is found and fixed, the less it costs us. The most expensive bugs are the ones that are encountered by customers on their production systems," explains Oleg Kiselev, VERITAS distinguished engineer. "We chose Coverity for two reasons: First, their products can help us improve the quality of our software during source code development. Second, Coverity does not cause disruption or significant changes in our engineering process."

Coverity Prevent automatically analyzes millions of lines of software code and follows every path that the software can take, giving developers 100 percent path coverage with a very low false positive rate. Developers can use Coverity Prevent to accurately identify a wide range of problems, including faulty code sequences that crash computer systems, poor performance, and faulty program behavior.

Coverity Extend further improves software development processes by allowing the creation and enforcement of custom coding rules unique to different companies. With Coverity Extend, software managers can design policies for optimized software engineering that are customized for their own development teams. These policies are automatically enforced by simple rules that Coverity Prevent can use to analyze coding practices of hundreds of developers working on distributed, large-scale software projects.

"The low false positive rate and customization capability of Coverity Extend allow us not only to fix bugs, but to fix the kinds of bugs that can be extremely difficult to find by other means, and to fix them early in the development cycle," said Jeff Darcy, software architect at Revivio, the leading provider of continuous data protection (CDP) technology. "This added capability increases the efficiency of our team, allowing them to focus less on fixing problems and more on building the product feature set our customers demand."

Coverity Extend and Coverity Prevent work with source code written in C or C++ for FreeBSD, HP-UX, Linux, Solaris, Windows, and other enterprise operating systems. The products are an upgrade to the older Coverity SWAT solution. The Coverity SWAT and Metal product names will be phased out.

New features in Coverity Prevent include:

* Extremely high quality results -- Coverity continues to set the standard in the industry by providing the lowest false positive rate.
* Faster performance -- Coverity Prevent provides results even faster by running code analyses on multiple machines in parallel.
* Finds more defects -- Coverity Prevent has expanded its use of statistical inference techniques to find more relevant null-dereference and ignored error return codes.

About Coverity, Inc. Coverity (www.coverity.com), makers of the world's most advanced and scalable source code analysis solution for pinpointing software defects and security vulnerabilities, is a privately-held company headquartered in San Francisco. Coverity was founded in 2002 by leading Stanford University scientists whose four-year research project resulted in a breakthrough approach for addressing the costliest problem in the software industry. That research breakthrough allows developers to quickly and precisely eliminate software defects and security vulnerabilities in tens of millions of lines of new or legacy code. Today, Coverity's solution is used by more than 40 leading companies to significantly improve the quality of their software, including Juniper Networks, VERITAS, McAfee, Synopsys, NASA, PalmOne, Sun Microsystems and Wind River.

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